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Hasan Gök

Hasan Gök - foto Jassir Jonis
Hasan Gök - foto Jassir Jonis

is a spoken-word artist, poet and moderator. His writing draws inspiration from the metaphorical nature of the Turkish language, fusing words to get closest to his feelings. Vulnerability is a major theme in all his works. Hasan was part of the first Poetry Circle in The Hague and is currently coordinating it. His text on self-identity, orientation, religion, and people's assumptions and expectations was selected for the anthology Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology (2021), a publication of Unwanted Words, a Rotterdam-based platform for LGBTQ+ poets and spoken-word artists. Meanwhile, Hasan has already hit quite a few stages, reading at the Van Gogh Museum, Crossing Border Festival, Amare, the Verkadefabriek, UIT Festival The Hague, Het Nationale Theater and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, among others.

(WN2023)

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  • Winternachten 2023

    Haagse literatuurprijzen: a festive programme celebrating The Hague's Literary Award winners

    With: Aad Meinderts, Amara van der Elst, Chelsy Valentina, Dominique De Groen, Donald Niedekker, Farah Karimi, Hasan Gök, Hashem Kabreet, Hassnae Bouazza, Jeremy Jordan Rosa, Jina Sumedi, Kaja Wolffers, LUWTEN, Marion Bloem, Marjan Slob, Obe Alkema, Orchestre Partout, Saskia Bruines, Sinan Can

    The Winternachten festival 2023 opened with prose, poetry, spoken word, music and the ceremony of the literary prizes of the City of the The Hague. The prize winners Marion Bloem, Donald Niedekker, Dominique De Groen and Marjan Slob (respectively) received the Constantijn Huygens-, F. Bordewijk-, Jan Campert-, and J. Greshoff- prizes from Saskia Bruines, alderman of Finance, Culture and Economy of The Hague.

    The prize winners were each of them be honoured with performances by special guests, including research journalist and documentary filmmaker Sinan Can, poet Obe Alkema, The Hague student Jeremy Jordan Rosa and film and TV producer Kaja Wolffers (son of Marion Bloem).

    The programme kicked off with the first official performance of Chelsy Valentina, the brand new and first Jonge Stadsdichter van Den Haag 2023 (Young City Poet of The Hague). Percussionist and handpan player Hashem Kabreet and Orchestre Partout gave music performances.

    Farah Karimi, who chaired the Board of Writers Unlimited, and Aad Meinderts, director of the Literatuurmuseum spoke words of welcome. Additionally, the jubilee publication on the occasion of 75 years of The Hague literary prizes, was presented to the alderman.

    Lobby programme with Amara van der Elst, Hasan Gök and the Jonge Stadsdichter
    From 14:30 hours, preceding the award ceremony in Zaal 1, spoken word artist Hasan Gök presented from the lobby stage a short interview with Chelsey Valentina, the Jonge Stadsdichter (Young Civic Poet). Spoken word artist Amara van der Elst performed, and also Hasan Gök performed some of his poems, accompanied by Jina Sumedi on keyboard.

    Bookstore De Vries van Stockum was present in the lobby with a stand offering books by participating authors of this programme, among others — including signing opportunties!

    Haagse literatuurprijzen was curated by Jet Steinz for Literatuurmuseum/Writers Unlimited. Moderator was Hassnae Bouazza.